www/licenses license-list.html

[Brett Smith]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Brett Smith <brett>     08/06/05 15:03:30

Modified files:
        licenses       : license-list.html 

Log message:
        Add a whole bunch of licenses.  RMS approved this.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/license-list.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.226&r2=1.227

Patches:
Index: license-list.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/license-list.html,v
retrieving revision 1.226
retrieving revision 1.227
diff -u -b -r1.226 -r1.227
--- license-list.html   3 Jun 2008 06:59:21 -0000       1.226
+++ license-list.html   5 Jun 2008 15:03:14 -0000       1.227
@@ -233,6 +233,20 @@
 those ways anyway, then it isn't a problem for you.</p></dd>
 
 
+<dt><a id="clearbsd"
+       href="http://labs.metacarta.com/license-explanation.html#license";>The
+       Clear BSD License</a></dt>
+
+<dd><p>This is a free software license, compatible with both GPLv2 and
+    GPLv3.  It is based on the <a href="#ModifiedBSD">modified BSD
+    license</a>, and adds a term expressly stating it does not grant
+    you any patent licenses.  Because of this, we encourage you to be
+    careful about using software under this license; you should first
+    consider whether the licensor might want to sue you for patent
+    infringement.  If the developer is disclaiming patent licenses to
+    set up a trap for you, it would be wise to avoid the
+    program.</p></dd>
+
 <dt><a id="CryptixGeneralLicense"
        href="http://www.cryptix.org/LICENSE.TXT";>
     Cryptix General License</a></dt>
@@ -251,6 +265,17 @@
 as the LGPL.</p></dd>
 
 
+<dt><a href="http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ECL-2.0/";
+       id="ECL2.0">Educational Community License 2.0</a></dt>
+
+<dd><p>This is a free software license, and it is compatible with
+    GPLv3.  It is based on the <a href="#apache2">Apache License
+    2.0</a>; the scope of the patent license has changed so that when
+    an organization's employee works on a project, the organization
+    does not have to license all of its patents to recipients.  This
+    patent license and the indemnification clause in section 9 make
+    this license incompatible with GPLv2.</p></dd>
+
 <dt><a href="/licenses/eiffel-forum-license-2.html">
     Eiffel Forum License, version 2</a></dt>
 <dd>
@@ -292,11 +317,34 @@
 href="#OriginalBSD"><em>original</em> BSD license</a>.</p> </dd>
 
 
+<dt><a href="http://freetype.fis.uniroma2.it/FTL.TXT";
+       id="freetype">Freetype Project License</a></dt>
+
+<dd><p>This is a free software license, and compatible with GPLv3.  It
+    has some attribution requirements which make it incompatible with
+    GPLv2.</p></dd>
+
 <dt>License of the iMatix Standard Function Library</dt>
 <dd>
 <p>This is a free software license and is GPL compatible.</p></dd>
 
 
+<dt><a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/Amaya/libjpeg/Attic/README?rev=1.2";
+       id="ijg">Independent JPEG Group License</a></dt>
+
+<dd><p>This is a free software license, and compatible with the GNU
+    GPL.  The authors have assured us that developers who document
+    changes as required by the GPL will also comply with the similar
+    requirement in this license.</p></dd>
+
+<dt><a 
href="http://www.enlightenment.org/viewvc/e17/libs/imlib2/COPYING?revision=1.4";
+       id="imlib">License of imlib2</a></dt>
+
+<dd><p>This is a free software license, and GPL-compatible.  The
+  author has explained to us that the GPL's options for providing
+  source all mean the source has been &quot;made available
+  publicly&quot; in their words.</p></dd>
+
 <dt><a
       href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/intel-open-source-license.html";>
     Intel Open Source License</a></dt>
@@ -304,6 +352,28 @@
 <p>This is a Free Software license, compatible with the GNU GPL.</p></dd>
 
 
+<dt><a href="http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/dhcp/dhcp-copyright.php";
+       id="ISC">ISC License</a></dt>
+
+<dd><p>This license is sometimes also known as the OpenBSD License.
+    It is a free software license, and compatible with the GNU
+    GPL.</p>
+
+<p>This license does have an unfortunate wording choice: it provides
+  recipients with &quot;Permission to use, copy, modify, and
+  distribute this software....&quot; This is the same language from
+  the license of Pine that the University of Washington later claimed
+  prohibited people from distributing modified versions of the
+  software.</p>
+
+<p>ISC has told us they do not share the University of Washington's
+  interpretation, and we have every reason to believe them.  Thus,
+  there's no reason to avoid software released under this license.
+  However, to help make sure this language cannot cause any trouble in
+  the future, we encourage developers to choose a different license
+  for their own works.  The <a href="#FreeBSD">FreeBSD License</a> is
+  similarly permissive and brief.</p></dd>
+
 <dt><a id="ms-pl" 
href="http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/publiclicense.mspx";>Microsoft
 Public License (Ms-PL)</a></dt>
 
 <dd><p>This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of
@@ -524,6 +594,13 @@
 explanation.</a></p></dd>
 
 
+<dt><a href="http://www.bittorrent.com/bittorrent-open-source-license";
+       id="bittorrent">BitTorrent Open Source License</a></dt>
+
+<dd><p>This is a free software license, but incompatible with the GPL,
+    for the same reasons as the <a href="#josl">Jabber Open Source
+    License</a>.</p></dd>
+
 <dt><a id="OriginalBSD" href="http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#6";>
     Original BSD license</a></dt>
 <dd>
@@ -558,6 +635,16 @@
 property</a>&rdquo;.</p></dd>
 
 
+<dt><a id="CPAL" href="http://opensource.org/licenses/cpal_1.0";>Common
+    Public Attribution License 1.0 (CPAL)</a></dt>
+
+<dd><p>This is a free software license.  It is based on
+    the <a href="#MPL">Mozilla Public License</a>, and is incompatible
+    with the GPL for the same reasons: it has several requirements for
+    modified versions that do not exist in the GPL.  It also requires
+    you to publish the source of the program if you allow others to
+    use it.</p></dd>
+
 <dt><a id="CommonPublicLicense10"
        href="http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html";>
     Common Public License Version 1.0</a></dt>
@@ -604,7 +691,8 @@
 reason.</p></dd>
 
 
-<dt>Jabber Open Source License, Version 1.0</dt>
+<dt><a id="josl" href="http://www.jabber.org/josl";>Jabber Open Source
+    License, Version 1.0</a></dt>
 <dd>
 <p>The license is a free software license, incompatible with the GPL.
 It permits relicensing under a certain class of licenses, those which
@@ -1536,7 +1624,7 @@
   <p>
     Updated:
     <!-- timestamp start -->
-    $Date: 2008/06/03 06:59:21 $
+    $Date: 2008/06/05 15:03:14 $
     <!-- timestamp end -->
   </p>
 </div>